People

Program Leader

• Prof Axel Bruns
  

  Program Leader - Digital Publics

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Chief Investigators

• Dist Prof Jean Burgess
  

  Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

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• Distinguished Emeritus Professor Stuart Cunningham
  

  Distinguished Professor, Media and Communication

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• Dr Ehsan Dehghan
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

• Assoc Prof Timothy Graham
  

  Program Leader - Computational Communication & Culture

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• Assoc Prof Stephen Harrington
  

  Discipline Leader, School of Communication

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• Assoc Prof Jenny Hou
  

  Associate Professor in Strategic Communication

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• Dr Bernadette Hyland-Wood
  

  Lecturer - Master of Digital Communication, School of Communication

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• Dr Jennifer Kang
  

  Lecturer

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• Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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• Prof Peta Mitchell
  

  Professor, School of Communication

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• Prof Anna Potter
  

  Professor in Digital Media and Cultural Studies

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• Assoc Prof Michelle Riedlinger
  

  Associate Professor, School of Communication

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• Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals
  

  Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

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Associate Investigators

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Affiliate Investigators

• Dr Naomi Barnes
  

  Senior Lecturer

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• Dr Sofya Glazunova
  

  Lecturer in Media Industries and Media and Communication, University of Melbourne

• Assoc Prof Richi Nayak
  

  Associate Professor, Science and Engineering Faculty

• Assoc Prof Erin O'Brien
  

  Principal Research Fellow

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• Assoc Prof Angela Romano
  

  Associate Professor of Journalism and Research Integrity Advisor

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Centre Research Staff

• Dr Ella Chorazy
  

  Senior Research Associate

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• Dr Tariq Dos Santos Choucair
  

  Postdoctoral Research Associate

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• Dr Katharina Esau
  

  Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Communication

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• Phoebe Matich
  

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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• Dr Sebastian Svegaard
  

  Postdoctoral Research Associate

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• Ms Samantha Vilkins
  

  Postdoctoral Research Associate

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HDR students

• Alia Azmi
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Mapping the Online Conversations about Sexual Violence in Indonesia

  alia.​azmi

• Anand Badola
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Rethinking the Public Sphere in India: Analysing the Discursive Dynamics in Social Media

  anand.​badola

• Dan Dai
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Comparative analysis of COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech on Chinese Weibo and the Australian Twittersphere

  dan.​dai

• Kate FitzGerald
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Participatory Conspiracy Theorising Online: A Case Study of QAnon

  katherine.​fitzgerald

• Caroline Gardam
  

  PhD Student | Thesis: Climate change "hoax" hashtags on Instagram: multimodal discursive practices in social media mis/disinformation posts

  c.​gardam

• Klaus Groebner
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis: Investigating the online media behaviour of Australian Facebook users

  klaus.​groebner

• Nadia Jude
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - ‘Battling’ bad actors or ‘inoculating’ against falsity? A policy analysis of problem representations of mis- and disinformation in Australia

  nadiaalana.​jude

• Kateryna Kasianenko
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism of Digital Publics

  kateryna.​kasianenko

• Daniel Kirby
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Mobile Veganism: How Mobile Apps Shape the Construction and Mobilisation of Vegan Consumerism

• Carly Lubicz-Zaorski
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Mapping the dynamics of Australian climate change partisanship and polarisation within online news-sharing spaces

  carly.​lubicz

• Dagim Afework Mekonnen
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Political Discourse, Polarisation, and Hate Speech on Social Media in Ethiopia During Civil War and Ethnic Violence

  dagim.​mekonnen

• Vicki Morganson
  

  MPhil Student | Thesis: Humour as an expression of sovereignty: a Black anticolonial perspective on norm-setting and safety in relation to comedy

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• Lucinda Nelson
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Where misogyny hides: An examination of everyday misogyny in discourses about Depp v Heard on social media platforms.

• Do Doan Hanh Nguyen
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Affective labour of male game streamers in Vietnam

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• Kate O'Connor Farfan
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis: Political polarisation beyond partisanship: Identities, online strategies of interaction, communication structures and democratic trajectories.

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• Maria Margarita Ochoa Diaz
  

  PhD Candidate ┃Thesis: Youth-led digital peacebuilding: A critical analysis of young political influencers' framing of peacebuilding on social media in post-conflict Colombia

  margarita.​ochoa

• Vishnuprasad Padinjaredath Suresh
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Detecting Algorithmic Radicalisation Trajectories (DART)

  vishnu.​prasad

• Albert Prestianta
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis: Media Literacy and Social Media: The Influence of Digital Platforms on Media and News Consumption Habits among Young Indonesians

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• Benson Rajan
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Safe to ‘Make the First Move’? Exploring Experiences of Intrusion and Safety Work for Indian Women on Bumble

• Andreas Ryan Sanjaya
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - A Study of Collaborative Journalism in Indonesia in the Digital Age

  andreasryan.​sanjaya

• Daniel Whelan-Shamy
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis: The Emergent Properties of Latent Space: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Simulation in New Computational Culture

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• Laura Vodden
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Augmented Insight: Leveraging Large Language Models for Analysis of Polarised Discourse on Social Issues in News Content

• Ned Watt
  

  PhD Candidate | FactCheck - GPT: An exploration of how publicly funded fact-checkers perceive implications of large language models (LLMs) on their labour and operational effectiveness.

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• Guangnan (Rio) Zhu
  

  PhD Candidate l Thesis - A Multimodal Computational Framework for Detection and Analysis of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Twitter

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